OAKLAND — Looking to spark a moribund offense, A’s manager Bob Melvin shuffled his lineup a bit for Tuesday’s game against the Chicago White Sox.

Matt Joyce is in his familiar leadoff position but Khris Davis will DH and bat third in the order. Yonder Alonso will bat clean-up for just the eighth game this season. Rajai Davis, who led off in Monday’s 7-2 loss to the White Sox, will bat ninth.

Since the A’s won four straight from June 23-27, they’ve hit just .167 and have struck out a combined 81 times. They struck out 13 times Monday, bringing their losing streak to a season-high six-games.

“We come off the road where we’re 4-2 for the first time, we come back home and I really thought we’d have a really good homestand,” Melvin said. “The offense is the thing that stands out. And then when you don’t hit and you don’t do other things well, then looks ugly, like it did last night.

“But we need to swing the bats a little better or we’re going to do what we’re doing right now. So, shake the lineup up a little bit today, move everyone up a little bit and hopefully get it going today.”

The A’s also committed two more errors Monday, bringing their season total to a Major League worst 76. Only a couple of generous official rulings Monday prevented a third or fourth error going up on the board.

Adam Rosales was charged with two errors Monday, bringing his season total to eight, trailing only Ryon Healy’s 13 for most on the team.

“It’s not necessarily just the younger guys. It’s everybody at this point,” Melvin said. “Whether we’re not hitting cutoff men, whether we’re not making plays we normally make.

“I’ve said often this year that we need to get on a roll and a string of games where we don’t necessarily have to make the great plays, we need to make the routine plays and we need to make them consistently over a period of time to where we feel like, ‘this is who we are now.’ We’ve just not been able to do that.

“Again, when you don’t swing the bats last night and you play poor defense, it sticks out like a sore thumb. But it’s not for a lack of work. They’re out here working every day, just haven’t been able to sustain a roll defensively and the numbers will show that.”

• Melvin said Healy was feeling better and was hoping he would be available off the bench Tuesday. Healy had back spasms Sunday and had to be taken out of the A’s game against the Atlanta Braves. He sat out Monday’s game.

• Reliever Ryan Dull said he came out of Monday’s bullpen session feeling fine and that the plan as of early Tuesday was to throw another bullpen session Wednesday. Depending on how Dull feels after that, he could advance to the point where he faces hitters.

Curtis Pashelka is the San Jose Sharks reporter for the Bay Area News Group. Prior to covering the Sharks, Curtis served as the high school sports editor for the East Bay. He also worked as a general assignment reporter covering motorsports, golf and college basketball, and as a backup writer on the A's, Giants and Warriors. He started at the organization in 2000 and spent close to eight years covering high school sports.